EVERYONE GOES HOMEShrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your true-north compass toward friendly lines during the blistering, do-or-die BattleMech combat of the 31st century and beyond!A Dispossessed MechWarrior stuck piloting a hovertank when her home is attacked must rein in her pride and jealousy when an entitled young MechWarrior is assigned to her unit. After an arrogant mistake meant someone never got to go home, a Cable’s Rangers lieu...

Disjointed (688 pages in print) is for patients with hEDS/HSD and the physicians who treat them. hEDS/HSD is an underrecognized, complex, multisystemic disorder, with the silos of healthcare’s specialties often working against effective and efficient treatment. With 21 specialist & 6 resource chapters, Disjointed brings together physician, patient, and parent perspectives to support the goal of earlier and more complete intervention. With specialist chapters by: Paldeep Atwal, M.D., Richar...

Whether you enjoy cozies, noirs, police procedurals, whodunnits, or lighthearted mysteries, there's something for everyone in this terrific Christmas-themed collection by twelve of Canada's finest mystery authors! An OPP officer investigates a John Doe dressed like Santa in July. A Toronto woman traces a mall Santa to the Caribbean. A woman's body is found in an isolated part of Cape Breton. A graduate student helps CSIS trace the source of a death caused by listeria. An aging singer disco...

This deliciously decadent once-banned classic of vintage erotica, written anonymously in 1890, tells the wild and sordid story of a head-strong and fiercely confident young woman as she navigates the kinky and the morally loose corners, boudoirs, and parties of Victorian high-society.In the great tradition of 'Fanny Hill', Arabella, in her own words describes her remarkable life seeking all manner of erotic diversions.Her journey begins at a very exclusive party of the era;...

As its name implies, True Confessions is a symposium of the most vivid romances of real life—irresistible masterpieces of realism. Its stories teem with dramatic situations that defy description; tear away the veils of pretense and paint the naked soul in indelible words of truth.These are stories based on fact, naturalistic stories describing intimate life—the lights and shadows, the frailties and falls, the perfect images of lives lived at the extremes of human experienc...

Written anonymously in 1908 this four volume work must be one of the most uncompromising pieces to emerge from the Victorian erotic underground. If the writer was attempting to emulate De Sade, then the author has succeeded.'The Way of a Man with a Maid', as told by its main protagonist, Jack, recounts in graphic detail the 'training' and eventual sexual liberation of a number of young women who had previously spurned his advances. In the 'snuggery', Jack's well equipped room of de...

Step into the world of Sulawesi, where the sea and stars guide destinies and the tides of history shape the lives of ordinary people.Star Memories is a sweeping, multi-generational novel that follows Punggawa, a commoner-turned-leader, and his son Wellang as they navigate the storms of colonial oppression, war, and revolution from the 1930s to the 1960s. Against the backdrop of Dutch and Japanese occupation, political upheaval, and the struggle for Indonesian independence, their jo...

Clinical trials sit at the center of how new medical therapies move from early scientific promise to safe, effective, and available treatment. Every stage of that journey — designing a protocol, finding the right participants, monitoring their safety, analyzing the resulting evidence, and ultimately gaining regulatory approval — has traditionally depended on expert judgment applied to data that arrives slowly and in fragments. Artificial intelligence is changing what's possible at each of ...

The young and handsome new Abbot of Motte-sur-Vy, Father Pineraide, is not as pure as his parishioners would believe. Leaving many a girls swooning at first meeting, our salacious man of the cloth wastes no time pursuing the lithe young women he first meets. Confessing her sins to him in his own house; that she has had impure thoughts of him while satisfying herself, Father Pinerade suggests blessing her with his holy rod to absolve her fully and completely, within and without.What...

When Caroline enters Harry's world, he is not quite so prepared for her forwardness, vigour, and general moral and sexual abandon. Seducing Harry's sister Adelaide, a young woman ignored by her husband in all things intimate, Caroline penetrates deep into the hearts and souls of siblings yearning for the kind of liberation she all too freely exhibits.On becoming Harry's wife Caroline, keen to share in her free love philosophy and finding Harry none too resistant, opens up their hou...

'A Town-Bull' recounts the exploits of New York city slicker Bob Sterling, recently wiped out by the stock exchange crash. Travelling back to the southern state in which he grew up, our well endowed hero will wile away his time plying the local lady folk with a damned fine rutting. Amongst maids, and housewives, débutantes, and mistress, many a lascivious deed is done, and his reputation spreads far and wide.Settling thus in his fabled Elysian Fields, where race, religion, age, exp...

Darkly funny, crisply written, and told entirely from the demon's gloriously snarky point of view, "Gotcha!" is a short story that delights in turning the horror genre inside out. It is a story about competence, consequence, and the ancient truth that some people are their own worst supernatural event. Y-tan-Nar has just finished ninety years of service with the genuinely skilled Goody Goodman and has earned a rest on hell's seventh level. Someone has other plans. Yanked without warning in...